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10 Best Terminal tools for the home lab - check out my list
Let me know if you have others to add or suggest! I learn about tools and apps from the community: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/11/10-best-terminal-tools-for-home-labs-in-2025/
10 Best Terminal tools for the home lab - check out my list
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I found another one that is worthy of addition. It's called gdu. Basically, it's a clone of ncdu written in go. It also runs on Windows, and is available from winget. I have to say that things are getting a little more interesting in the world of command line tools with everyone rewriting classic unix tools in Go or Rust.
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@Ken Pryor I'm glad to hear it. Between duf and gdu, I have found two new staple tools in just the last few weeks.
Very cool Lightweight SysLog server for Home lab check it out
Logward Is the Lightweight Syslog Server Every Home Lab Needs in 2025 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/12/logward-is-the-lightweight-syslog-server-every-home-lab-needs-in-2025/
Very cool Lightweight SysLog server for Home lab check it out
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This is very cool. The last syslog server I setup was the one that Grandstream published more as a temporary troubleshooting tool. It's Windows-only, and closed-source. Worked in a pinch. Logward looks like something that I could actually grok setting up at home.
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@Brandon Lee That's what I love about open source. You find something in alpha, and you can watch it evolve.
Learning how and why vs Docker and automation.
I guess the question is: Is it worth learning the manual how-to setup and config or just learn Docker or and equivalent? Seems to me that everything is going automated. For example: The proxmox scripts that everyone seems to use. Anyone can copy and paste a command but do the know how to do it without a simple cut and paste. I personally have been trying to do most of it w/o scripts or docker. Yes there is a lot of trial and error but when it works i feel good about it. Most will say it's a time thing. I get that. I'm just looking for opinions on weather I should worry about doing things the long way or get with the times and cheat the system.
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@Jason Eurich I've been around since before the virtualization and Docker craze hit in a big way. I've had to go through the process of learning the why and how behind some of these things. I even had a professor who made us avoid the package manager on a Debian lab system and compile from source to meet the requirements for that particular class. With this background out of the way, I would offer this suggestion. Automation and Docker containers are great for the home lab. They are also great as evaluation tools to learn a piece of software (not installation, operation) and decide if it is useful for you. Once you have evaluated the software, THEN you move on to the phase where you learn all of the install options, and really understand the system. This will pay off in dividends when you go to troubleshoot an issue later. I like to remind myself that things are different today. Resources are far more plentiful today than they were when I started out (formal training started in 1990's dial-up days). Take advantage of the tools we have today. It's always great to know more, but we do have a finite time on this ball of dirt, and you simply cannot learn everything. Prioritize. Learn what you need to for a project. Move on to the next when it makes sense. Lean on those in the community for tips and tricks when you're stuck.
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@Jason Eurich You're very welcome.
This always surprises me…
Most business owners have no idea how many customers they lose because their website loads slowly. How long will you wait before clicking off a slow site?
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I can see this from both sides. Yes, businesses don't realize the struggle of the customers accessing their site. At the same time, customers don't realize what the maintainers of the website go through to make the information available. Sometimes there are constraints imposed by management that make it necessary to push changes before they are 100% tested for speed. Also, just because it's slow on your mobile device doesn't mean it is slow on someone else's. There is so much variation in carriers and phone hardware that it becomes a "best effort" situation.
Gamers in our midst?
Are you a gamer in addition to your IT / Networking addiction?
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@Brandon Lee I wish I were. I did pick up a GL.iNet Slate 7 though, and I might take advantage of the sale going on to pick up a pair of Yubikey 5c NFC devices.
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I suppose I should answer this myself... I do a little gaming on Steam (non-Windows only). I'm really excited about the Steam Machine and Steam Controller launching in 2026. I've always been a fan of drawing a line between computer productivity and gaming.
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Technology Coordinator at a library by day, home labber and YouTube content creator nights and weekends. Proud Linux user since 1998.

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